Dubai Shopping Festival 2011: January 2011 – February 2011 (exact dates TBD)

The Dubai Shopping Festival is an annual shopping event in the emirate of Dubai.

Started in 1996 with the aid of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Dubai Shopping Festival aims to promote Dubai as a premier tourist destination and highlight the shopping for which the emirate is famous.

A month-long extravaganza, the Dubai Shopping Festival features entertainment, promotions, prizes, and of course, world-class shopping.

Win a luxury car or high-end apartment in one of the Dubai Shopping Festival’s famous raffles, or visit one of Dubai’s six thousand participating shops to take advantage of store promotions.

Enjoy fireworks in the evening while you sport the new attire you picked up at one of Dubai’s best shopping destinations, then get some sleep so you can wake up early for the next day’s shopping adventure.

Major airlines that fly to Dubai airport Terminal 1:
Aeroflot has flights to Dubai from Moscow

AirBaltic has flights to Dubai from Riga

Air China has flights to Dubai from Athens and Beijing

Air France has flights to Dubai from Paris

Air India has flights to Dubai from Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Mumbai, and Trivandrum

Indian Airlines has flights to Dubai from Bangalore, Calicut, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Mumbai, and Pune

Alitalia has flights to Dubai from Rome

Austrian Airlines has flights to Dubai from Vienna

Bahrain Air has flights to Dubai from Bahrain

British Airways has flights to Dubai from London

Cathay Pacific has flights to Dubai from Bahrain, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Mumbai

China Southern Airlines has flights to Dubai from Beijing, Guangzhou, and Lagos

Delta Air Lines has flights to Dubai from Atlanta

EgyptAir has flights to Dubai from Alexandria and Cairo

Ethiopian Airlines has flights to Dubai from Addis Ababa and Mumbai

Gulf Air has flights to Dubai from Bahrain

Jet Airways has flights to Dubai from Mumbai and Delhi

Kenya Airways has flights to Dubai from Guangzhou and Nairobi

KLM has flights to Dubai from Amsterdam

Korean Air has flights to Dubai from Seoul

Kuwait Airways has flights to Dubai from Kuwait

Lufthansa has flights to Dubai from Frankfurt

Malaysia Airlines has flights to Dubai from Beirut, Karachi, and Kuala Lumpur

Malev Airlines has flights to Dubai from Budapest

Middle East Airlines has flights to Dubai from Beirut

Norwegian Air Shuttle has flights to Dubai from Oslo and Stockholm

Olympic Airlines has flights to Dubai from Athens, Kuwait

Oman Air has flights to Dubai from Beirut, Kuwait, Muscat, and Salalah

Qatar Airways has flights to Dubai from Doha

Royal Brunei Airlines has flights to Dubai from Bandar Seri Begawan and London

Royal Jordanian has flights to Dubai from Amman

Royal Air Maroc has flights to Dubai from Casablanca

Scandinavian Airlines has flights to Dubai from Copenhagen

Singapore Airlines has flights to Dubai from Istanbul, Moscow, Riyadh, and Singapore

Swiss International Airlines has flights to Dubai from Muscat and Zurich

Thai Airways International has flights to Dubai from Bangkok, Chennai, and Kuwait

Turkish Airlines has flights to Dubai from Istanbul

United Airlines has flights to Dubai from Washington

Virgin Atlantic Airways has flights to Dubai from London

Major airlines that fly to Dubai airport Terminal 2:

Condor has flights to Dubai from Frankfurt

Finnair has flights to Dubai from Helsinki

Great Wall Airlines has flights to Dubai from Manchester, and Shanghai

Major airlines that fly to Dubai airport Terminal 3:

Emirates has flights to Dubai from Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Ahmedabad, Amman, Athens, Auckland, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Birmingham, Brisbane, Cairo, Calicut, Cape Town, Casablanca, Chennai, Christchurch, Cochin, Colombo, Damascus, Damman, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Houston, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Khartoum, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London, Los Angeles, Luqa, Male, Manchester, Manila, Mauritius, Melbourne, Milan, Moscow, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya, Nairobi, New York, Newcastle, Nice, Osaka, Paris, Perth, Peshawar, Rome, Riyadh, Sana’a, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Seychelles, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran, Toronto, Tripoli, Trivandrum, Tunis, Venice, Vienna, and Zurich

Dubai is known for its luxury shopping and massive indoor and outdoor shopping malls. It is also known for its art galleries and traditional souks. Whatever your shopping style, Dubai has something that will suit your needs.

Here is my list of the best shopping in Dubai:

Boutique 1 (Boulevard Emirates Towers)

Five Green (Garden Home Center, Oud Metha)

Dubai Gold Souk

Dubai Spice Souk

Wafi Shopping Mall

Mall of the Emirates

With all the construction going on in Dubai, new hotels are opening every day. That said, there are some hotels in Dubai that will be hard for the newcomers to eclipse.

Here is my list of the best hotels in Dubai:

Burj al Arab Hotel

One and Only Royal Mirage Hotel

Jumeirah Beach Hotel

Raffles Dubai Hotel

Grosvenor House Dubai

Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa